Books do furnish a room, it's true, but couldn't they do it a bit more imaginatively?

Such seems to be the thinking behind a beguiling new blog dedicated to the things and called - with a straightforwardness not prominent elsewhere on its site - the blogonthebookshelf.

Though anybody with more than a few books is going to need a pretty gigantic home to make these shelves in any way practical, I'm sure I'm not the only one who comes over all covetous when looking at the elegance of the objects (such as the pictured offering from Design Within Reach).